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You ever have one of those shows that you just randomly think about and remember how one of the story lines was the worst? Christie and Alak deserved so much better in Defiance.

Watched a bunch of the season finales this last week. I think FBI Most Wanted did the best job when it comes to cliffhangers.

spoilers for 911, FBI Most Wanted, Chicago PD, Lucifer )

Links:

How to Handle Your Re-Entry Anxiety as the Pandemic Recedes

The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia

Rock Happy 'verse by ArwenLune
Stargate Atlantis, Generation Kill || most of the usual suspects from both worlds || 241k
Sgt. Brad Colbert has been on a lot of strange missions, but this promises to be his most out there yet: Atlantis. This is not a story about falling in love. This is a story about falling in team.
Gen story, set mostly in season 4, military focus, outsider perspective, interesting original characters, focus on women in the military. Lots of worldbuilding and 'what happens in Atlantis where the cameras aren't pointing' daily life stuff.
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Catching up on tv and this week's 911 was Not Okay. I think I need to go read all the Buck/Eddie comfort fic now. Also, if I had known this was going to happen, I would have waited until next week so I could go right to the next episode! ugh.

Chicago PD was also Not Okay, but I'm sure that one is going to turn out okay.
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I recently finished David Arnold's The Electric Kingdom, which was very weird in a good way, and Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, which took ages because it was a slow and heavy read but I really enjoyed it. And I watched the second season of The Boys!  I think it's kinda funny that three of the actors from Timeless - Claudia Doumit, Goran Visnjic, and Malcolm Barrett - were all in it.

I told Bebout he has to find somewhere else to stay. I feel bad, but he's an adult (technically) and has to do something to help himself. Lying to us, blowing money on weed, skipping his doctor appts, quitting his job - I'm not dealing with it.

Our current fosters are a mom and three babies, and I'm pretty sure the mom was a feral. The shelter told me she's "spicy." They're currently in one of our big kennels, trying to get them kinda used to things for a couple days and then we'll turn them loose in one of our spare bedrooms, but she paces back and forth and takes the babies by turn and tries to find a way to escape with them. The kittens are fine with being taken out and played with, and we've been letting them out to run around with Duke (he loves kittens; Duchess goes and hides when the kittens come out), but momma is not having it. She got out earlier when Miranda was trying to clean the kennel, and Ronnie and Leah had to chase her all over the house and she tore Ronnie up. Good thing she has her shots. We've only had them a couple of days, so I'm hoping she'll at least settle enough to be socialized enough to be adoptable.

We're adjusting my migraine meds and I swear I've done little more than sleep for the past two weeks and it's a mess. And oh hey, my Hurricanes just won their game, so I guess it's bedtime for me now too!

Links & recs:

Palestine Emergency Response - link to Humanity First who are working on the ground in Palestine and could use donations

you do not have to be good. by coffeesuperhero
Leverage || Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer || 20k
Come hell or high water, Eliot is going to figure this out.
Super good, going on my all time favorites list: It's basically a damn advertisement. Wanted: one hitter. Must love: martial arts, culinary arts, cars, guitars, a tall genius hacker, and a small mischievous thief.

Forty Years and Eight Pounds (The Skin Hunger Variations) by bironic
Stargate Atlantis || John Sheppard || 2419
John finds what he's looking for when Teyla places it on his chest, warm and heavy and smelling of milk. Or: Six people John never told, and four he didn't need to tell.
Beautifully done

Four Blatant Lies About Atlantis (And One Thing That's Totally True) by sabinelagrande
Stargate Atlantis || Rodney McKay/John Sheppard || 4196
Wherein aliens don't make them do it, John loves ASCII, Carson hates everyone, Weir is highly amused, and Lorne's just tyring to be a pal.

The Legend of Smedley Duckler, the Fighting Quacker by Domenkia Marzione (domarzione)
Stargate Atlantis || 3383
How the marines got their mascot. Or, Sheppard and Lorne Are In Charge Of Crazy People.very fun read
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Quarantine Life. Actually, it's a lot like my summer life? I miss the girls though. Sometimes, lol. I've been working through my reading list and catching up on netflix and amazon prime (I have lists on hulu and disney+ as well, but cox contour is dumb and doesn't support them so I have to switch to the xbox for them and it requires multiple remotes and I'm lazy), working on some jigsaw puzzles. I miss going to the movies, but one of our local theaters (the Grandin) has it set up that we can "rent" movies and they get credited for it. It's the small indie theater, so it's the special movies. So that's good.

I'm watching Vagrant Queen on SyFy. It's decently fun, I guess. It wants to be Killjoys but it's not. I like the new season of Roswell well enough, even though I wish I would have gotten done writing before season two kicked off. The last episode of Chicago PD was great - I'm all about Atwater getting more screen time and I love him. I admit to skipping several episodes this season because I didn't like the way they handled Jay's injury so I don't know why Hailey has run off to NYC to join the FBI. I want to like Almost Paradise but I'm just not feeling it. Davey and I are halfway done with the final season of Magicians. I don't know what we'll pick up on after that.

Davey is missing the end of his senior year. It sucks. Our school is still finding ways to connect with them and recognize them, and Mr Habeeb promised they'll get a celebration of some sort. But still, no senior skip day, no senior twister, no senior spotlight concert. :( He has zoom classes several days a week. Several schools around here have basically just given up for the year, but Salem was introducing new material this week. And Bridgewater has been doing a lot of webinar type things for new students. Davey's been doing doordash some evenings too.

Ronnie is still working full time. Most of the guys in the shop got laid off, but since he's licensed for state inspections, they kept him on, even though he just started. Both my brothers and their wives are still working as well. And Harley is still getting paid even though she's not working because of the way her teaching contract is. So we're not in too much of a situation yet. We'll see how things progress though.

I have no idea what day it is most of the time, except for Sundays (church) and every other Wednesday (mom's chemo). And my sleep schedule is totally fucked. But I definitely believe that staying home and taking precautions is working and is necessary, unlike some of these yahoos.

I hope everyone else is doing okay! *hearts*
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I'm trying to refrain from starting every post here and every letter to my prison penpals with "sorry, things have been crazy lately," because things are always crazy and I just need to accept that it's my new normal and roll with the chaos. Not that anyone is reading these posts anyway.

movies & TV )

I just finished reading Jay Baruchel's Born Into It (loved it) and a collection of essays about women in the bible and the church.

I was planning on doing NaNo this year - honestly just a collection of stories from my life and such, for the kids - but haven't managed to start yet. Oops.

Kid updates )
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I still haven't made any progress on my lesson plans. Unless you count rsvp'ing to a webinar with On Earth Peace. I did get most of the other stuff checked off my church to do list though.

My house is still a disaster. I'm so tired all the time, it's ridiculous. And if I step outside into the heat and humidity, I swear it takes me ages to recover from just that. I wouldn't hate summer so much if I didn't have to leave the house, but between drs appts - me and mom and davey - and the fact that I'm trying to make sure the girls spend time outside every day, that doesn't work. I wanted to get more settled before the girls came back, which didn't happen, so now I've downsized my want-to-do list and set a new deadline of when Illy and Davey go back to school, so I have like a week. But I don't have the girls tomorrow or Monday because I was supposed to be out of town this weekend. So, fingers crossed I can get something done.

I'm caught up on Pearson, which is one of the two shows I'm watching right now. The other is Killjoys. (I'm also watching the Food Network shows, but that's all the time. Right now is Worst Cooks and Kids Baking Championship, which has a middle schooler from here in Roanoke on it.) Now I'm giving A Cure for Wellness a go. It's been on my list for a while. I thought about going to the movies tonight - I haven't used my A-list in like two weeks! - but that seemed like a lot of effort. And I can't just throw a hoodie on to cover the fact I'm a bum because it's like 112* outside. But there are at least three or four things showing right now that I want to see. Hopefully I can get some done this weekend.

TV

Aug. 30th, 2017 01:22 pm
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Why is it that TV shows that I/we like always start sucking after the first couple of seasons? Ugh. We love the characters and the world and we want it to go on forever - that's why we have fanfic! - but it never works out. Especially when we start losing important characters! I mean, come on. Criminal Minds without Morgan? Hawaii 5-0 without Chin and Kono?

Chicago PD without Lindsey? Seriously? Sophia Bush is the reason I started watching that show! (Okay, the crossover with Chicago Fire had a little to do with it to.) Jesse Lee Soffer is cute and all, but he's not enough to keep me watching. Plus, since they took away Halstead's boyfriend first and now his girlfriend, if he's not sad next season, I'd throw something at the tv. We won't even mention this whole "taking Natalie out on a date" nonsense from the end of this past season; hopefully that was just to make Will wake up.

Anywho. Early seasons. I'm all about the first few seasons of Supernatural. Haven. Effing Killjoys! Ugh. I love Killjoys! I love the universe it's in, I love Dutch and Johnny and D'avin and their relationship with one another, and Lucy and Pree and Alvis. Even Fancy! But I am so not feeling all this bullshit with Khylen and the green and ughhhh. Give me back a weekly show of our guys being killjoys and going after bad guys! (I feel the same kinda way about SPN and Haven. Monsters/Troubles of the Week are way better than the apocalpyse arcs.)

I've been watching a lot of "junk food" tv this summer. None of it is particularly good, but it's filing the time. The Mist and Still Star-Crossed both had potential but didn't live up to it. I think I like Midnight TX but it won't last long. I do like Somewhere Between, even though I'm not sure how Devon Sawa grew up like that. I like Salvation. Watching the final episodes of Teen Wolf just to see how it ends. And because Stiles AND Derek were in the season preview. I'm a few episodes behind on Night Shift but I love it; same with Wynonna Earp. Did not like this season of Face Off. Oh, I watched Doubt with mom, and I cannot believe it ended the way it did since I don't think it's coming back. I'm sure I'm missing something, but it's probably one of the dozen shows I watch on Food Network, lol.

So if anyone wants to talk about TV, hit me up! Or if you wanna hear me go on about my Chicago PD OT3, I'm good with that too.
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Get in my belly, cheeseballs get in there!

Yeah, we're watching the Squeakquel again.

For a Monday, today wasn't so bad. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] irisgirl12000 for the concert calls last night, to [livejournal.com profile] wordsalone for being an enabler, and [livejournal.com profile] harriet_vane for the schmoopy sweet fic in my inbox. I know I say it a lot, but it bears repeating: my friends are the best friends!

True Blood is like a trainwreck. It's so not good, but I can't stop watching! I wanna know what happens next! And I accidentally watched like 8 episodes last night. Oops? (It's even more funny to me because I don't even like the story! I didn't get past the first couple chapters of the first book!)

I think Andrew may be getting fired tomorrow. :( I'm gonna miss his stupid ass.

Wednesday is Robbie's bday, yay! I gotta make cupcakes (two batches - one just for him & one to share). He's lucky I like him. Jerkass.

I miss Amy. She's supposed to come up for Labor Day, and I'm gonna go down there next month so she and I can drag Cliff to see Drive A, but still. I miss her!

I went out Friday night to meet Anfernie & his bf at a drag show, and saw way more of him than I ever wanted to see. Fucking Heather; it was all her fault even though she wasn't even there. Anfernie (who was actually Dallys on Friday night) and my friend Holly comparing their fake boobs was pretty hilarious though. Holly has lopsided tatas and so she has inserts for the right side of her bra. They freak Jessie out. Holly abuses that fact. Also, I have so missed hanging out with Jessie & Holly. And the rest of the RMG crew, of course. I don't miss the job at all (okay, that's a lie, as much as I hated it, sometimes I miss the physical labor and actually being able to do my fucking job) but I miss some of the people. And apparently I'm missing Jon's midlife crisis. Jessie's keeping me in the loop by txtng me pictures, lol, but it's not the same.

Other things to love today:

♥ BABY NEVILLE! Tomorrow is Pam's 37 weeks mark so he can come ANY DAY NOW!

[livejournal.com profile] apiphile

♥ FOB Cobra

♥ the boys from Drive A

♥ BRENDON URIE'S STUPID FACE!

♥ twitter (it is an endless source of amusement)

♥ Leverage, Psych, and Royal Pains (keeping me entertained until the fall season of other shows)

p.s. I may be a little in love with James Ransone. Okay, that's a lie. I'm totally in love with him. Who can I blame this on?
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So, I’m sitting at a get-together at Adele’s house with Tinsley & some of our friends and I’m playing on my laptop and watching the phones and taking pictures and protecting Amy from the evil MOTHS while they play some drinking game I’ve never heard of. Tinz & I both brought our laptops thinking that Adele still had wireless but she doesn’t. Boo on that fucking shit. I wanted to play online. Still, I can work on fanfic and still be sociable at the same time, right? Yeah, I really am that lame.

Right now, though, I’m gonna write up my post about finales, since I keep putting it off and I really meant to put my feelings down about it. oh, randomly? I lost one of my flashdrives. I dropped it btwn the computer table and my bed and can’t find it. It had my Jericho thoughts on it (for like the last four episodes of the show) and fanfic. Like several files of partially written fanfic. Gone. Boo. At least three of them were porn that I was too embarrassed to show anyone. Damn it. I’m thinking about rearranging our bedroom on Monday (RT is taking my boys to see Iron Man so I’ll have a few hours at home to myself) so maybe I’ll find it.

Joey’s making fun of Amy b/c he has more of an ass than she does. She said “oh, kiss my back.” I love being the sober one sometimes.

Oh yeah. Has anyone been watching Hal Sparks & C Thomas Howell on Celebracadabra?

spoilers under the cut for the season finales of Supernatural, ER, Reaper, Law & Order SVU, and Criminal Minds )

One last thing, quote of the night, from Amy: Fuck that shude!

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